Chapter 5 Ryan Chestnut: Reporter.

So there I was at a stump out party, where basically... We get a stump out, Mr. Blister gave us the land if we remove the stumps, I mean... Selling the logs paid the price of the lot that's been as abandoned at those telephone poles.

(Picture of broken and abandoned telephone poles near the stump out party.)

Oh look! There's Ryan Chestnut, the dopey looking guy who Mandy constantly asks to puff him out his cheeks with chestnuts and says calls him the cutest giant chipmunk in the whole world!

Well anyways, he lives in town, half time I guess, he does stuff for the paper, he's a nerd, I think... Well, he's an adult so I wonder if he's the kind of guy that Mom used to think was cute.

Why do I wonder that?

Well... Because I have met a lot of kids like in school like that and I personally avoid them!

'Ben... You aren't like that right? I mean, you won't grow up to be some dopey looking guy with glasses right? You are going to get contacts before we get to middle school right?'

I've seen those, "kissing with glasses" jokes and... They look painful!

ANYWAYS... Ryan often walks around town and is always happy to chat, but..! Right now he's asking my own personal grandmother questions!

"So..! What'd Ryan want?" I just asked Grampa... He's got "common sense". Meaning, he knows how to talk so that people can understand him instead of gossiping on about nothing.

"Oh?" Grampy smiled at me and then started to do something interesting as he answered, "He got some story, some rumors you know."

"And..." I looked at..! "Grammie... You get all the latest gossip first!" Hoping that compliment works! "So spill. What's this all about?"

"Some circus, something silly like that. Ha ha ha!" Grammy laughed for a good long while. And then! She just threw down her hand and like... See where Mom gets it? She's so obviously making up stories! "Coming to town!"

Wait... Some reason my mouth would not stop opening! "Ahh..!"

“Really???”

Okay, here's the deal, I went to the circus ONCE... I should really tell Lauri how much I want to see those circus things in real life again!

1: The clowns and

2: Meeting the animals, and

3: Watching the dancing bears. OH MY!

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(Picture of Narrie on TV with the circus and a big, "See me!" sign.)

To quote the person who I AM GOING TO BE ON TV WITH! "They are ALL AMAZAZING!"

Yeah. So what if I'm practically already a teenager now. Circus's are always going to be so COOL!

“So Narrie...”

Anyways... Grampa just got my attention by spreading his arms and asking me, "You guys got this field clear yet?"

“WHAT?”

Okay, number 1. He knows that it's "a slow job just but we all are getting there."

I mean... This “field” is “getting cleared”, like, there's this pathway and this a circle and we've been even talking about having concerts or maybe like a Christmas tree lot here or something and...

"Honestly Grampa,” I shook my head at the really old guy who might even be getting an old brain age! “You've been the one hosting most of these stump out party's!"

Well, he just put his hands over his neck, "Yup,"

He looked into space with a glum smile on his face, and then gave me one of those mysterious looks and added, "I know something. But it's a secret."

WAIT... What?!?

"Wa' hat?" (is it?)

"I'll let you know in say a month."

"Kha... Aah..?" I... I Sometimes really DO NOT like my family!

Now I know for sure what Ryan was doing here, he and Mrs. Inkwell sometimes write really funny mystery articles for the paper. And well the rumor is that there is going to be a circus in town! And I think I know exactly where too!

MY HOUSE!!!

Picture of suddenly realizing that the really strait logs some of the people call “tent poles”, are in fact CIRCUS TENT POLES!

"What..? What's up Narrie?" That's my cousin Kyle, I think he's... Slow. Momma Lauri says that I'm fast.

I say that... "Well look who raised me huh?"

And Lauri says, "Well, don't get all awkward like me in middle school alright?"

That's something really big that should be on my mind because I know, I mean I know that Mom is really worried about it.

Well... I will NOT let Ben turn into this dopey looking guy who Mandy constantly asks to puff him to puff out his cheeks with chestnuts and says he's the cutest giant chipmunk in the whole world!

“I know the secret!” I waved to my cousin Kyle and... There he is!

"So RYAN!" I called out to him since he wasn't talking to anyone, "What's this about a circus? Rumors? I want in!"

"Hon," Ryan started, "I want to get your story but... I guess you know less than your grandparents?"

"What?" I mean... What? "But Grampa said..."

"I'll keep you posted, alright."

WELL! "You had better!"

"I will." Grrr... See, I don't think I like Ryan, but maybe I'm bias because Grammy sometimes says how he used to have a lot of issues and was a grouch and yelled a lot, and... Mom used to yell a lot too...

Honestly though... All I wanted to tell Ryan was that I know that HE knows about the circus. And if Ryan knows, than chances are that Mandy is going to put it in her show and I REALLY WANT to be on TV!

Like..! This whole circus is for me right? This field, Mom saying they'd make it up to me, everything!

Right?